The modern Weird Tales magazine has been sold by Wildside Press to a new owner/editor. Or at least, the rights to use the brand name for a magazine. The new owner is Marvin Kaye, whose first issue of the magazine will apparently be a Cthulhu special in Feb 2012. SF Scope writes of Kaye…

“The 73-year-old Kaye edited the anthology Weird Tales, The Magazine That Never Dies, which Doubleday published in 1988. He is the author of 16 novels and six nonfiction books, in addition to plays and play adaptations. He has edited at least 30 anthologies, and won the World Fantasy Award for best anthology in 2006 for The Fair Folk.”